It sounds like this unit is 100% functional after installing the Atheros NIC driver, setting the nomsi kernel option, and enabling WOL in the BIOS. Can someone who owns one confirm that? There were some HD playback issues mentioned previously, and I don't see a definitive resolution to those in this thread.

Also, how loud is the fan in this thing?

I can confirm that the unit is functioning 100% and HD playback does not give me any issues.

The fan, well, its not soundless so to say ;-) but bearable...

if somebody is interested in the initrd and vmlinuz files to overcome the Atheros driver stuff pm me and I'll send over the files.

It sounds like this unit is 100% functional after installing the Atheros NIC driver, setting the nomsi kernel option, and enabling WOL in the BIOS. Can someone who owns one confirm that? There were some HD playback issues mentioned previously, and I don't see a definitive resolution to those in this thread.

Also, how loud is the fan in this thing?

Well any Atom/ion machine on the market today should be fine. The only issues we ever see are NIC related and those are easily fixed and sometimes we see unusual mapping of the hdmi/dvi/ ports which is confusing sometimes too. Our latest rev of the AVwizard now auto-detects which port the display is connected to and sets most of the config based on EDID if the display reports back 'sane' values (some definitely don't lol!!). This means that no one should be left trying to figure out the output connector for their video hardware (we hope).

I have 4 of the nt330i's running as MD's and they work great. There were some issues with the NIC drivers, but the wiki does a great job walking you through that. I'm going to put up a new wiki with my complete build when I figure out how to add a wiki page (and get some time).. HD video works great, but I suggest loading them up with memory. I've got 2Gb of memory in them now, and it uses all of it when I'm playing a movie. Fan runs all the time basically, but it's not that loud (especially compared to a normal sized pc). Overall, I'm very happy with my set up using the Foxconn's and will buy another when I get the need. Only outstanding issue I've got is HDMI sound, but I'll figure it out eventually. I see others using XBMC have had similar issues, so it's a common problem.

I have 4 of the nt330i's running as MD's and they work great. There were some issues with the NIC drivers, but the wiki does a great job walking you through that. I'm going to put up a new wiki with my complete build when I figure out how to add a wiki page (and get some time).. HD video works great, but I suggest loading them up with memory. I've got 2Gb of memory in them now, and it uses all of it when I'm playing a movie. Fan runs all the time basically, but it's not that loud (especially compared to a normal sized pc). Overall, I'm very happy with my set up using the Foxconn's and will buy another when I get the need. Only outstanding issue I've got is HDMI sound, but I'll figure it out eventually. I see others using XBMC have had similar issues, so it's a common problem.

I have had some trouble getting sound up via HDMI but its running. If I can give a hand with printout of setting and so, let me know.

That would be great if you could send me (or post) the configs that you have. I'm running it through the DVI interface right now, and would love to get HDMI up and running.

Thanks!

First of all - follow the wiki. I have been fighting with these thingies for some time and the wiki contains the steps I had to take to get a working system. Especially the step were you have to press 3 when you know for sure AVWizard is running. And most of all "Give it some time". Its not like u press 3 and within a millisecond its there....

FYI - via trac ticket http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac.cgi/ticket/1265 I've implemented and tested a couple of MD builds with the Foxconn NT330i, this should now be seamless and not require any manual intervention as it did on 810.

This update will be available to everyone on the next deb re-package, which happen every couple of days. Once this repackage occurs you will need to re-run the /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh (it takes about 30 minutes give or take). If you already have a media director built and want to test this out, go into the web admin and select media director --> scroll down to your media director and click 'rebuild image' - this will leverage the new compressed image created by the Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh file.

HDMI audio via the avwizard by default has now been committed to SVN. The next repackage run will allow you to take advantage of this when building the foxconn (as well as any media directory using HDMI) so you don't have to hook up a VGA connection (i'm happy to bid farewell to that monitor i lugged around the last couple of years whenever I setup an md).

This concludes the last remaining issue I'm aware of for a seamless MD build for the foxconn nt330i.